Part 7 - Administrative matters

31. Commercial vessel and hire operations

(1) No person shall operate any commercial vessel for hire or reward or any vessel involved in a commercial operation or any vessel hire operation if, in the opinion of the Harbourmaster, such operation may be deficient in terms of safety or compliance with good practice for such an operation, and the Harbourmaster instructs directs them to cease operating.

Rationale for change

The change from "any vessel hire operation" to "any vessel involved in a commercial operation" is to clarify intent: to ensure all commercial operations using any vessel, including freedom hire and events using volunteer vessels, have acceptable fit-for-purpose, appropriately scaled, safe systems of work.

The change from "instructs" to "directs" is for consistency with s33F MTA 1994.